"Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures:……" — James W. Loewen
"Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students."
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James W. Loewen
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14 Quotes by James W. Loewen
James W. Loewen has 14 quotes on this site.
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Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of…
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Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
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Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
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Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and…
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People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created,…
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As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a…
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Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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The idea that we would operate and amputate healthy tissue from a baby, from an unconsenting minor, to supposedly prevent…
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Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
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It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to…
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In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi -…
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The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
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More Adopted Quotes
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted…
— Charles Babbage
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the…
— George Bancroft
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Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I…
— Anthony Bourdain
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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught…
— Jimmy Carter
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a…
— Madonna Ciccone
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I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And…
— Kelly Clarkson
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and…
— James A. Baldwin
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this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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